Re: [Qemu-devel] Win95 Image does not boot, how can I debug where I am getting stuck

[Wesley Parish <wes.parish@paradise.net.nz>]

My suggestion:
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 of=win95.img 
when fd0 contains a Win95 boot floppy with some diagnostics.  Then
qemu -boot a -fda win95.img -hda win95 &
and run the diagnostics.

That should tell you if there's an error in the image itself, perhaps in the
MBR.  If it's not in the image, then it's a bug somewhere in qemu.  But that
should get you started.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Leah Cunningham <leah@frauerpower.com>:

> This probably isn't exactly the right question for a development
> mailing
> list, but the user-forumns did not seem to exist, so I hope you will
> forgive me or tell me where to ask a question like this.
> 
> I have an image of a Window's 95 hard disk, dd'd directly off the disk
> itself. I can mount the image loopback:
> 
>  /tmp/win95 on /mnt type vfat (rw,loop=/dev/loop5)
> 
> I do not seem to be able to boot the image with qemu, trying with
> various versions, but I have no idea how to proceed with finding out
> what is wrong. How can I debug what is happening? Would there be a
> boot loader error? 
> 
> If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. When I try to boot the image
> we hang right after the BIOS says "Booting from hard disk".
> 
> Cheers,
> Leah
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